Middle-class debt trap:
$600,000 Home Mortgage
$20,000 Credit Card Debt
$150,000 Student Loans
$60,000 Car Loans
$50,000 Wedding
$0 Investments
The "American Dream" is built on getting you into debt.
Break free.
The problem Silicon Valley Bank faces today is VERY different than the 2007-2009 banking crisis.
$SIVB was thriving. Credit losses are fairly low. Its deposits TRIPLED from 2019 to ‘21.
How’s that a problem?
It sounds great, right?
Well, it’s a Wonderful Life…
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One of the biggest mistakes I see beginners make is not understanding the market cap rate
If you don’t understand how the market values the property (the market cap rate), you’re going to lose money
Here’s why:
Being in a strip club with ya shirt off toting guns on Instagram live while being worth over $200 million as one of the faces of the NBA is the goofiest shit I’ve ever seen. Tryna be a street dude up 9 figures is the literal definition of hustling backwards.
This week, inflation came in at 6.4% using a new CPI calculation:
- 2023 CPI = ONLY 2021 consumption
- 2022 CPI = 2019+2020 consumption
Using OLD CPI, inflation is estimated to be 6.7%.
This would’ve been the 1st increase in inflation since July 2022.
Is this a coincidence?
Over the last 3 months:
1. Household debt hit a record $16.9 trillion
2. Credit card debt hit a record $986 billion
3. Mortgages hit a record $11.9 trillion
4. Auto loans hit a record $1.6 trillion
5. Student loans hit a record $1.6 trillion
How can this possibly end well?
517K #jobs were created in Jan., more than twice expectations. The unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, the lowest since 1953. The actual #inflation rate is so much higher than what's reported that record numbers must work multiple low-paying jobs and retirees are forced back to work.